From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 05:54:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] wildmatch: explicitly mark intentional use of the comma operator
Message-ID: <Z-OWpEDwHtaq3r2J@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <9a6de12b8076266fb0c88f6b658c20d37409ce13.1742945534.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 11:32:11PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> diff --git a/wildmatch.c b/wildmatch.c
> index 8ea29141bd7..ce8108a6d57 100644
> --- a/wildmatch.c
> +++ b/wildmatch.c
> @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static int dowild(const uchar *p, const uchar *text, unsigned int flags)
>  					p_ch = 0; /* This makes "prev_ch" get set to 0. */
>  				} else if (t_ch == p_ch)
>  					matched = 1;
> -			} while (prev_ch = p_ch, (p_ch = *++p) != ']');
> +			} while ((void)(prev_ch = p_ch), (p_ch = *++p) != ']');
>  			if (matched == negated ||
>  			    ((flags & WM_PATHNAME) && t_ch == '/'))
>  				return WM_NOMATCH;

In this case I agree that it makes sense to not introduce curly braces
for brevity.

Patrick